Creator Bio
Edwin Seroussi
b. 1952
Born in Montevideo, Edwin Seroussi is a musicologist, specializing in the Sephardic tradition. Seroussi immigrated to Israel in 1971, studied at the Hebrew University, and earned his doctorate at UCLA. He is professor of musicology and director of the Jewish Music Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also founded and is the editor of Yuval, the music series of the Jewish Music Research Center.
Content by Edwin Seroussi
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Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity
Let us begin with the most basic questions: Can oral traditions of music constitute a reliable source for historical research? While this question is applicable to most music…